Okada Riders Pluck Off Police Eyeball

The elder brother of Kazeem Abonde, the late Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Mr. Musbau Abonde, has recounted how his younger brother was killed, and his eyeball removed immediately after he was murdered.

Musbau said after the incident, he went to the scene to do some personal finding on how and what led to the mob attacking his brother and why his boys couldn’t come to his rescue.

He said: “I was told that some of his boys ran away after he was shot and left him to die, but some passersby rushed to rescue him and took him to the hospital.

“The hoodlums came back and chased them away. They dropped him and ran away for their own safety.

“I was told that about 30 policemen followed him to the operation, but my question was: how could his boys who followed him not come to his rescue but ran away and left him in the pool of his blood? I was told he even thanked those who tried to rescue him before the mob came back.”

Musbau said it was when he went to the mortuary to inspect his brother’s remains that he discovered that one of his eyeballs had been removed.

“Since the incident happened, police have not been able to recover his service pistol, identity card, cap and some other vital documents the hoodlums removed from his body.

“Even the gun they shot at him was not his pistol. It was unfortunate that he died under such circumstances.”

Musbau said the day his brother was killed, he never knew he had been killed; that he called his line twice to remind him of his birthday.

He said further: “It was our mom’s last born that called me later in the day to inform me about his death, I collapsed but woke up at the hospital.

“Immediately I went to the police command to meet with the Commissioner of Police. What I asked him was: how could a CSP awaiting Assistant Commissioner of Police (promotion) be killed in that manner without any of his boys being attacked? While him alone?

“We have cried and cried, we have put our fate in Allah. COVID-19 test and autopsy has been conducted on his remains and his body has been handed over to us for burial in Ibadan on Friday October 1.

“I believe there is much to his death. We are going to bury him and come back to ask vital questions surrounding his death from the police authorities”.

It would be recall that Kazeem Abonde, was murdered on September 23, 2021, by rampaging motorcycle riders at Ajao Estate area of Lagos State.